Maira Kalman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.”

“My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.”

“It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.”

“I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.”

“My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.”

“I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.”

“I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.”

“I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.”

“I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.”

“It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.”